Africa Regional Internet Development Dialogue Kigali, Rwanda, 8-9 May 2017 By WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION

1. Connecting the Next Billion:
Why we must REACT to the Growing Digital Gender Gap

2. A global snapshot of women online
Women are nearly 50% less
likely to access the Internet
than men and 30-50% less
likely to use it for personal
empowerment 37%
59%
% of survey respondents reporting Internet
access
37%

3. Major barriers to access & use
Know-how: 34%
Cost: 16%
Relevance: 14%
Device: 13%
Time: 11%
Other: 8%
Infrastructure: 4%
Know-how
Cost
Relevance
Device
Time
Other
Infrastructure
% of survey respondents who are not Internet
users across all nine cities

4. How do African countries perform?
Overall
score
Access &
empowerment
Affordability Digital skills
& education
Relevant
content &
services
Online
safety
Egypt 30% 3 6 3 1 1
Ghana 30% 2 4 1 4 5
Kenya 30% 2 5 2 8 3
Mozambique 20% 2 4 2 2 3
Nigeria 30% 2 5 2 3 3
Uganda 30% 2 3 3 7 2

5. Prioritise local
language data,
info and
services that
empower
women
Audit
government
websites to
assess their
gender
relevance
Achieve the A4AI
“1 for 2”
affordability target
Develop more
public access
solutions
Create options for
subsidised basic
data allowance,
focused on women
Integrate basic
digital literacy
in school
curricula at all
levels
Expand digital
literacy training
beyond
technical skills
Protect online
rights & privacy
in law
Equip police &
judiciary with
training &
resources to
fight online
violence
Where do we go from here?
RIGHTS EDUCATION ACCESS CONTENT TARGETS
Adopt concrete ICT
gender equity targets,
backed by adequate
budgets
Collect ICT data
disaggregated by
gender, income &
location
Develop new
indicators to measure
impact of ICT on
women